RangeDisplay

RangeDisplay is a simple range display addon. It is using spell range, item range and interact-distance based checks to determine the approximate range to your current target, pet, focus or mouseover unit (if enabled). The mouseover unit display can be anchored to mouse, or placed at a fixed position. As of v3.4.1 interact-distance based checks are only used if the other two are unavaliable due to the strange way interact-distance checks work causing strange results with some mobs.

RangeDisplay is a front-end to LibRangeCheck-2.0, a library addon to
calculate the range estimates. DogTag also supports LibRangeCheck via
the [Range] tag, thus you can get range display in addons using DogTag
to build texts, like PitBull (unit frames) and CowTip (tooltip).

Note: RangeDisplay can only check for some specific distances, thus determining
a minimum and maximum range to the target. Some of these ranges are rather
large, so the range update may be slow, as it takes time to cover a bigger
distance. Unfortunately there is no way (that I know of) of providing higher
resolution for range estimates.

Options:

/rangedisplay locked
Toggle the locked state of RangeDisplay frame.
While unlocked, you can drag it to a position you like with the left mouse button and open its config menu by right-clicking on the frame.
While it is locked, you can click-thru the display.

/rangedisplay
Open the config GUI.

Install instructions:

NOTES:

After installing, RangeDisplay will be enabled by default, and unlocked, so you'll see a semi-transparent rectangle in the center of your UI that you can drag to a position you like. After finding a good place for it you should lock the frame with /rangedisplay locked, so that it won't eat your mouse clicks (note: the enemyOnly option only works in locked mode, too).

- added CONFIGMODE (OneButtonConfig) support
- added a new range section
- added option to use section colors as background
- added option to override the numeric range display with static text for sections
- added option to copy current section settings to all other active units
- hide the tooltip while moving
- made the configuration a separate load-on-demand addon to save memory

v3.5.0

- Added support for mouseover unit

v3.4.1

- Added option to hide the background when no valid target is selected
- disabled interact-distance based checks when spell/item based checks are available

v3.3

- Updated for wow version 3.1

v3.2

- Removed the checkVisibility option (it's not that useful now with the new ranges)
- Localization updates
- Fix melee range for Druids

r44840:
- converted RangeDisplay to use the AceAddon/AceDB/AceConsole framework. Unfortunately this means that previous configuration is lost, but RangeDisplay gained Profiles, and better chat commands. Also, RangeDisplay should be configurable via DeuceCommander and Niagara now.
- New 'enemyOnly' option to restrict range display for enemy targets only.
- New 'strata' option to allow setting the frame strata of the range display.
- Support for Gladiator Gloves (Shaman, Mage) in RangeCheck-1.0.
- Fix for out-of-range bug near the 10yd range for hunters with the Hawk Eye talent in RangeCheck-1.0.
- Range display is disabled now if target == player.

r44002:
- Fixed a bug regarding rangecheck for priests against enemy targets (was always showing out-of-range due to a wrong spell in the HarmSpells list).

r42768:
- Renamed from RangeCheck to RangeDisplay because of a naming conflict and to avoid confusion with RangeCheck-1.0 (the library part).
- Added "Shoot", "Throw", "Gift of the Naaru" and "Mana Tap" to spell lists.
- New option to display range when out of range as "minRange +".
- New option to check for 'visibility range', too (~ 100yd).
- Optional GUI config with Waterfall or Dewdrop.
- Font selection (font, size, outline, color) (only via GUI).

r41103:
- Changed spell list for Paladins and Warlocks, now RangeCheck should display the correct range for hostile targets.
- Removed the localization options from RangeCheck-1.0. Now the range is always reported in "min - max" format.

The item you're using for the 5 yd check (Ruby Acorn) seems to be closer to 2 yd. Worgsaw (63427) and Darkmender's Tincture (52741) would be alternatives.
Also here's a list with items for additional range checks which you're currently missing:

50 yd: Haunting Memento (116139)

70 yd: Eyesore Blaster (41265)

100 yd: Malister's Frost Wand (33119)

Cheers,
lleafll

Thanks, will take a look, although it'd seem strange to have a 2yd range, too...

The item you're using for the 5 yd check (Ruby Acorn) seems to be closer to 2 yd. Worgsaw (63427) and Darkmender's Tincture (52741) would be alternatives.
Also here's a list with items for additional range checks which you're currently missing:

Hey mitch0, coud you add an option to anchor the range numbers to other framenames?
Woud be realy cool for my UI, woud make it work with any resolution

Hello,

I'll take a look at it, although I feel it's not worth the trouble, so unless it's super-easy to do, I'll probably skip it... (seems to be only useful for addon compilations). Couldn't you solve the positioning issue by creating different profiles for different resolutions and switch to the correct profile at startup?

Came back to wow after a somewhat long pause, I remember this add-on had the option to show single numbers instead of ranges (as in 9 instead of 5-10), but I can't find it anymore. Did it get removed or anything?

Hi,

That option went away when I added free form range formating. Now you can set up any text display for the given section, that is interpreted as a format string with two parameters: minRange and maxRange, and there's an additional checkbox: Reverse, which will swap the two parameters.

So, if you want to display only the maxRange, you need to set Text to "%d" and tick the Reverse toggle.

Came back to wow after a somewhat long pause, I remember this add-on had the option to show single numbers instead of ranges (as in 9 instead of 5-10), but I can't find it anymore. Did it get removed or anything?

Hi,

That option went away when I added free form range formating. Now you can set up any text display for the given section, that is interpreted as a format string with two parameters: minRange and maxRange, and there's an additional checkbox: Reverse, which will swap the two parameters.

So, if you want to display only the maxRange, you need to set Text to "%d" and tick the Reverse toggle.

Came back to wow after a somewhat long pause, I remember this add-on had the option to show single numbers instead of ranges (as in 9 instead of 5-10), but I can't find it anymore. Did it get removed or anything?

Please make sure you're running the latest release of RangeDisplay. Also check if you get your options panel back if you only load RangeDisplay (and no other addons). If the options panel is still gone when RangeDisplay is "alone", then please report it (preferably via a ticket on wowace).

If RangeDisplay works OK when no other addons are present, then I'm afraid you'll have to hunt down the other addon that's in conflict with it. You might try installing Ace3 as a standalone addon and hope that fixes the issue, too...

cheers,
mitch

Originally Posted by flyg

Hi,

Seem to have lost my options for range display - options is loaded and it appears ingame addon list but then no options on right when selecting it.

I remember having this a few years ago with another addon and it was blamed on different embedded versions of acegui being loaded from another addon.

That was fixed by changing the loading order but I never got it to work.

I play WoW on two different machines. I spent some time Monday night carefully placing my rangedisplay display boxes on one machine. If I wanted to make sure that they were the same, I'm assuming I need to grab the RangeDisplay folder from that machine and put it on the other... but is there anything else I need to grab? I'm guessing it might be a saved variables file/folder from somewhere, but I'm really not sure.

Thank you for any (useful ) answers!

Hi,

You'll need to copy the saved variables from under the wtf/config folder. I think it's called RangeDisplay.lua, too, but I can't check now.

I play WoW on two different machines. I spent some time Monday night carefully placing my rangedisplay display boxes on one machine. If I wanted to make sure that they were the same, I'm assuming I need to grab the RangeDisplay folder from that machine and put it on the other... but is there anything else I need to grab? I'm guessing it might be a saved variables file/folder from somewhere, but I'm really not sure.

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